careful you're risking a visit from b3ta's resident grammar pedant
the one who thinks it's spelled taleban despite the root arabic root word for student being talib, not taleb
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cumquat may will not be commenting further on the allegations, Tue 17 Aug 2021, 12:17,
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For someone who complains he's obsessed with you, you do talk about him a lot.
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evil_andy Stick stick stick stick sticky sticky stick stick, Tue 17 Aug 2021, 12:42,
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I don't think so.
A reference or two right after he's been particularly dickish, but most of the time I don't think much about him at all until his seething hatred boils over into an outburst in one of my threads
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cumquat may will not be commenting further on the allegations, Tue 17 Aug 2021, 12:52,
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"until his seething hatred boils over into an outburst in one of my threads"
Sounds like a lot of unresolved sexual tension to me. Perhaps a naked wrestle infront of a roaring fireplace is in order?
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seems to fascinate you more than it does me.
as a sock puppet you just seem so unnecessary, we've already got enough first-form blatherers, do you really think you're adding anything?
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cumquat may will not be commenting further on the allegations, Tue 17 Aug 2021, 13:04,
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ah well, perhaps you're helping someone not feel so lonely
someone to reply to their threads when nobody does. point out their lame jokes in case somebody missed them. I guess that's not a bad thing, and might stop their needing attention by other means
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cumquat may will not be commenting further on the allegations, Tue 17 Aug 2021, 13:26,
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So, who's sock do you suspect me of being?
Just out of curiosity...
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Are you robson green?
no, wait, give me another go. Are you darryl hall from hall and oates?
Can I hear you sing the first verse again?
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cumquat may will not be commenting further on the allegations, Tue 17 Aug 2021, 15:00,
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The transliteration of Arabic script to the Roman alphabet has never been standardised.
It has been done piecemeal on a phonic basis alone. Thus we sometimes have various ways of writing the same arabic words in English. For example Koran or Qur'an or Quran. The English would write Gaddafi, the Americans Kadafi while the French Khadafi. None of these are wrong, just different transliterations. The Arabic root of the word in question is written in, wait for it, Arabic, so the root word is definitely not talib. I hope this helps.
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Prufrock Lucifer, son of the morning!, Tue 17 Aug 2021, 13:33,
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the spelling of taliban has been standardised by english media, including the bbc, some time ago, for the reason I mentioned
All the major british papers and media outlets use it and have it in their style guides for well over a decade now. It's also what the Taliban call themselves when they release things in English, but who are they to know?
You probably just didn't notice, as they probably still use the variation with the incorrectly matching phoneme on the blogs you frequent. It's not a big deal, I was just curious what defence you'd blather this time instead of admitting you were in error
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cumquat may will not be commenting further on the allegations, Tue 17 Aug 2021, 14:36,
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ha, christ
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cumquat may will not be commenting further on the allegations, Tue 17 Aug 2021, 15:28,
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